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Rhys Williams is out driving when he is telephoned by a work mate to
inform him that one of their firm's lorries has crashed. He drives to
the site of the crash and see that one of his employees and friend has
died. Torchwood appears on the scene and Rhys spots Gwen.

The Torchwood team confiscates the meat that the lorry was
transporting when they suspect it of being alien. Gwen recognises the
lorry as one from Rhys' firm. Back at the hub Toshiko rings Rhys'
office for information pretending to be the police. At home Rhys texts
Gwen asking for her to come home. He attempts to get her to confess to
being at the crash site but she is evasive.

He sees Gwen meeting up with Jack near the lift in Roald Dahl Plas
and follows her to a factory. While there he is captured by a group of
men and taken into the factory. Jack and Gwen see this and mistake his
actions for collabaration. The men show Rhys that they have captured a
live large creature which is the source of the meat and which continues
to grow despite them cutting chunks of its flesh away while it is still
alive. He agrees to join them.

Back at their flat Rhys and Gwen argue over her being at the crash
and Gwen admits to the nature of her work for Torchwood. Rhys is
disbeliving till she shows him around the Hub. With Rhys' help the team
manages to inflitrate the factory so they can free the alien creature.
The team hides in one of Rhys' vans and Rhys drives them to the factory
where the team sneaks in.

They locate the creature and plan to stun gun the men and sedate it
so they can move it back to the hub till the Rift reopens. They confirm
that the creature is sentient, but the men discover them and in the
fights Rhys is shot. The creature becomes distressed and Owen has no
other option but to euthanise it when it poses a threat to them by
struggling.

They are able to stun the men and feed them amnesia pills. Back at
the Hub Owen patches up Rhys' wound and Jack orders Gwen to give Rhys a
pill too. She finds that she cannot bring herself to do so and Jack
relents, disappointed about this.

When it is suggested that the team drive into the meat factory
hidden in the back of a van, Gwen derisively replies "What is this, Scooby-Doo?", referencing the children's TV series. Early reviews of Torchwood detractingly compared it to Scooby-Doo.[2]